double standard

英 [ˌdʌbl ˈstændəd]

美 [ˌdʌbl ˈstændərd]

n.  双重标准; 双重道德标准

Collins.1

牛津词典

noun

• 双重标准；双重道德标准
  a rule or moral principle that is unfair because it is used in one situation, but not in another, or because it treats one group of people in a way that is different from the treatment of another

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 双重标准
  If you accuse a person or institution of applyingdouble standardsin their treatment of different groups of people, you mean that they unfairly allow more freedom of behaviour to one group than to another.
  1. Mrs Starky accused the local police of operating double standards...
     斯塔基夫人指责当地警方采用双重标准。
  2. We cannot have a double standard where we say everybody else must play by the rules, but we do not need to.
     我们不能采用双重标准，即要求别人必须按章行事而我们自己却不必如此。

英英释义

noun

• an ethical or moral code that applies more strictly to one group than to another

双语例句

• Researches on standard addition method in ion-selective electrodes ⅲ. on errors in the double standard addition
  离子选择性电极标准加入法研究&Ⅲ、二次标准加入误差规律探讨
• Western hysteria over attacks in western countries reinforces a jihadist argument: the western double standard.
  西方人对发生在自己国家的袭击案作出的歇斯底里反应，印证了圣战分子的一个论断：西方国家秉持双重标准。
• This is a double standard. I'm confused.
  这是双重标准，我很困惑。
• For their own part, short-sellers complain of a double standard: why should a view that a company's shares are likely to fall be inherently less valid, and more worthy of suspicion, than a view that the shares will rise?
  卖空者方面抱怨存在双重标准：为什么与认为某公司股价会上涨的观点相比，认为股价可能下跌的观点就应该更难以成立，更值得怀疑？
• He's got a double standard: it's all right for him to have affairs but not for her.
  他采取双重标准：自己可以有外遇，女方却不行。
• And make punitive damages in the amount of the double standard of compensation.
  并对惩罚性赔偿的数额采用双倍赔偿标准。
• All those surveyed said they believed there was an affective double standard.
  所有的被调查者说他们相信是有一种感情上的双重标准。
• Casual dress is regarded as less acceptable for women than for men, leaving women to wrestle with a double standard when choosing a wardrobe.
  女人穿着休闲比男人这么做更难以让人接受，这令女性在选择衣着时面临双重标准的问题，经常摇摆不定。
• Women fall prey to the double standard imposed by men, so they "play games" because men make them.
  当女人受够了男人强加于她们的双重标准，她们就开始跟男人进行“心理战”。这都是男人自己一手造成的。
• There must not be a double standard whereby anti-nuclear proliferation is used as a pretext to limit or retard the peaceful use of nuclear energy by developing nations.
  不能采取双重标准，以防止核扩散为借口限制和损害发展中国家和平利用核能。